Feeling Vaccine Envy?, Here’s How to Deal With It in a Healthy Way.
As more and more people become eligible
for the COVID-19 vaccine, it’s no surprise that
many are feeling a tinge of jealousy. .
Here are five ways to healthily deal
with your feelings of vaccine envy, as
advised by a group of therapists. .
1. Acknowledge
that what you’re
feeling is valid. .
Vaccination envy isn’t malicious,
it’s very human. It is a natural
response to seeing others
receiving an opportunity for
greater safety and wanting the
same opportunity for yourself, Abigail Makepeace, Marriage and Family
Therapist in Los Angeles, to Huffpost.
2. Remind yourself that
every vaccinated person is a
step closer to normalcy. .
The turning point does not arrive
for individuals, one by one, as soon
as they’ve been vaccinated; it
comes for all of us at once, when
a population becomes immune, James Hamblin, Lecturer at Yale School
of Public Health, via Huffpost.
3. Realize you’re
lucky to have the
luxury of waiting. .
The people getting it now are at
higher risk … contemplate if you
would also be willing to exchange
with them the factors that place
them in a higher risk category, Abigail Makepeace, Marriage and Family
Therapist in Los Angeles, to Huffpost.
4. Know that as
annoying as vaccine
selfies are, they’re
ultimately helpful.
Photos of people getting the vaccine
can help normalize the process and encourage
others to make appointments. .
5. Try to understand
why you’re feeling jealous.
The jealousy one might feel at learning that a neighbor, who seems relatively young and healthy, has been vaccinated already, may be trying to communicate just how anxious and ready you are to receive the vaccine yourself, Zainab Delawalla, Clinical Psychologist in Atlanta, to Huffpost